Kicking off proceedings at the mid-year climate talks in Bonn amid fraught global geopolitics, UN climate chief Simon Stiell reminded delegates that tackling the global climate crisis is "the hardest, but most important, thing humanity has ever tried to do together”.Perhaps hoping to forestall the usual diplomatic wrangling that routinely bogs down the talks, he warned governments that there is no time to "re-open past debates or renegotiate commitments already made”.Instead, he added, there is an imperative to accelerate real-world action as deadly heat intensifies and the fossil-fuel price crisis sparked by the Iran war strangles economies, “taking a wrecking ball to lives and prosperity”. That message seemed to sink in with the negotiators in Bonn, where the opening session kicked off only an hour late and was not marred by agenda rows, which delayed the start of the talks by a day last year. On bridging the gap between the negotiations and the real economy, Stiell called for elevating the Global Climate Action Agenda, a goal long promised but never fully delivered.